UPDATED:Due to a late congressional vote scheduled for Thursday night, McCotter’s Friday appearance on “Iowa Press” is now in jeopardy.

Top Iowa aide Christopher Rants said Wednesday afternoon that McCotter had already canceled planned visits on Thursday to a Waterloo factory and a Black Hawk County Republican Central Committee meeting.

The campaign was checking this afternoon whether it could secure a flight from Washington Thursday night that could get McCotter to Iowa Public Television’s Johnston studio before the 10 a.m. taping on Friday.

Original post:

Presidential candidate Thaddeus McCotter will be in Iowa and on Iowa Public Television this Friday.

The Michigan congressman will appear on “Iowa Press,” the public affairs program that airs at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

McCotter, a Republican, will discuss “issues dominating the 2012 campaign,” according to a news release from IPTV. McCotter has run a low-key campaign focusing on bank reform and raising awareness about threats to the United States from China.

He polled 10th out of 10 candidates in last month’s Iowa Straw Poll, winning just 35 votes out of nearly 17,000 cast.